eMachines ET1831-07 Desktop (Black)
- 2.7GHz Intel Pentium E5400 Dual-Core Processor
- 4GB DDR2 Memory
- 750GB SATA Hard Drive; 16X DVD±R/RW SuperMulti Drive
- NVIDIA GeForce 7050 Integrated Graphics
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
eMachines ET1831-07 Desktop PC comes with these specs: Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor E5400, Windows 7 Home Premium, NVIDIA GeForce 7050 Chipset, 4096MB DDR2 Memory, NVIDIA GeForce 7050 Integrated Graphics, 750GB SATA Hard Drive, Multi-in-1 Digita
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(out of 30 reviews)
List Price: $ 389.99
Price: $ 406.99
Review by John S. Huisman for eMachines ET1831-07 Desktop (Black)
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A great product for the money..This is my third E-Machine and always have been satisfied with them…Had some trouble with my first unit (due to some unfortunate mistakes on my part)I completely lost the O.S….The vendor thankfully replaced it…It’s fast,runs cool and windows 7 was a quantum leap form XP…some of the hardware is a little “tinny” ie. the rear video plug and the rear expansion bays are difficult to remove…I’ve had it a month and overall, I’m generally well satisfied
Review by Just Gary for eMachines ET1831-07 Desktop (Black)
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I was having trouble with an old computer (single processor with Windows XP that I have had for 8 years) at a remote site and was looking at replacing some parts when I stumbled across this. When I looked at the cost of replacing the parts of the old computer with buying this one, it was no contest. If you add up all the parts for this computer (purchase them separately here on Amazon), it gets close to $600. This is truly an amazing buy and the speed is actually really good. I have an I-7 960 with a solid state drive (that was extremely expensive to buy) on my other computer and even though this doesn’t match that one, it doesn’t do a bad job of keeping up. Really, this does a decent job at an incredible price. I would recommend this for anyone replacing an older computer.
For this price, this a great for normal light computer uses, like surfing the web, watching a DVD, answering email, playing a low-end video game. If that is all you ever want to do, then the price should convince you to buy this. But what really impresses me is that (compared to my older computer) this can also do the more sophisticated items much faster. Rendering a video, expanding a zip file, dealing with several tasks at the same time, playing a higher end video game. I am rather impressed by the ability of this computer to do what you would expect in a computer twice as much.
Just on a side note, I deleted all those “trial” programs. I had bought Office Home and Student for another computer and it allows 3 installations, so I just used that. I downloaded AVAST, which is a free virus protection program with great ability. I loaded Firefox instead of using Internet Explorer (IE just doesn’t have enough features and is too buggy) and Thunderbird as a replacement for Outlook. I also use TeamViewer to connect all my computers instead of PCAnywhere, PCtoGo, or Windows RDP. All those programs are free (CNet), work on Windows 7, and run much faster and bug free.
Review by Kabol, Johnathan N. for eMachines ET1831-07 Desktop (Black)
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this is for the eMachines ET1831-07–not the 05, this is a pentium dual core processor.
windows 7 after a short while will prove wonderfully easy to navigate. the thing is, windows 7 is huge. the first thing you do once you get the computer up-and-runnin is create your recovery discs. it will take four dvds: three for the recovery and one for the drivers. then go about deleting the programs you dont need. i always get rid of trial software and i delete norton in favor of kaspersky (unless you can afford a nod program, or mcafee).
this comp is very easy to set up and use and the processor is insanely quick. this isnt a gaming computer, but it is fast and has a lot of drive data, plus the usbs are 2.0. plus, though it reads on the box that the hard drive is a 750g, it is really a terabyte hard drive (odd but very cool), and the processor is not only an intel pentium but is also a dual core. this comp is insane for the price. i picked one up for my mother in law and went to setting it up. liked it so much that i went out and got one for our house.
found it at best buy for $350. that is a steal. im so much happier with it over my old emachines, w3650. this is a much better product, a luck find. get it while you can.
Review by Bernard Gallagher for eMachines ET1831-07 Desktop (Black)
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I went to Best Buy last weekend to buy a new computer. I was pulling my hair out with my old XP computer (if you have an old XP computer, you know exactly what I mean). I bought the cheapest machine there, not really needing a high-performance PC. But, wow! Was I surprised. This machine screams! Even from a cold start, I’m at the desktop within seconds of hitting the power switch (with XP, your lucky if you can even get to the desktop in a half hour from a cold start, never mind it actually responding ro your mouse clicks). IE and Email launch immediately. My trains fly down the track in Microsoft Train Simulator. And photos load and save instantly in Photoshop. w00t!
So what are the flaws? For one, I had intended to mount a removable drive bay, place the existing internal hard drive in a removable slider, and get a second hard drive and slider so that I could install Linux on it so that I could boot from either removable drive. Well, the drive bays are behind these little plastic doors that hinge down, so I can’t install a removable drive bay without taking the whole front of the case apart (this design also makes it a little difficult to reach the eject button on the CD drive). Grrrr!
For another, the keyboard and mouse are cheap and tinny feeling. The keyboard is like the type of keyboard on laptops with the keys flush to the surface of the keyboard base. But I prefer trackballs to mice anyway, so I replaced the mouse with a USB Logitech trackball (that I bought from Amazon a while back), and I’ll replace the keyboard one of these days.
Review by K. Chambers for eMachines ET1831-07 Desktop (Black)
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I loved almost everything about this computer (especially the price)….the speed is fantastic and there’s lots of memory, etc. It was a huge improvement over my previous computer. But the only two drawbacks are that it doesn’t come with a recovery disk (you have to create your own using your own CDs). And when I went to do so, I discovered that there are some problems with the CD/DVD drive. When I went to remove the CD, it would not come out (I got some error message). So I don’t know if the CD drive was not installed properly at the factory or what. I’m not very techy, so I have to do a little homework to figure out how resolve that. I’m not going to spend money to take it somewhere to fix a new computer. Other than that everything works well and again the price was unbeatable for what I needed.